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EVOLUTION OF INVESTMENT FLOWS IN U.S. MANUFACTURING:A SPATIAL PANEL APPROACH

Brown, Jason P.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; McNamara, Kevin T. - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University - 2008

The paper starts with a discussion of a conceptual model of location factors in U.S. manufacturing investment at the state level. The purpose of the paper is to test the relative importance of growth factors influencing investment and whether or not they have changed in importance over time....

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IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION:DO NEIGHBORHOODS MATTER?

Duncan, Natasha T.; Waldorf, Brigitte S. - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University - 2008

The United States provides a path to citizenship for its newcomers. Unlike other immigration countries, however, the United States does not have policies that ease assimilation or directly promote naturalization such as easily accessible and widely advertised language and civic instruction...

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Persuasion in Fundraising Letters: An Interdisciplinary Study

Goering, Elizabeth; Connor, Ulla; Nagelhout, Ed; … - Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue … - 2008

In this paper, we report experimental evidence on the effectiveness of several techniques of persuasion commonly utilized in direct-mail solicitation. The study is built on theory-based, descriptive models of fundraising discourse and on comparisons of recommended and actual practices related to...

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Principal-Agent Theory and Nonprofit Accountability

Steinberg, Richard - Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue … - 2008

This synthetic literature review briefly summarizes general literature on principalagent problems, then shows how this literature has been or can be adapted to look at nonprofit governance, accountability, and performance. It concludes with discussions of differences between agency problems in...

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Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments

Sandy, Robert; Liu, Gilbert; Ottensmann, John; … - Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue … - 2008

We utilize clinical records of well successive child visits by the same child at clinics in Indianapolis to estimate the effects on their weights of changes in environment near their home. Our sample is limited to children who resided at the same address before and after the environmental change...

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Fiscal Policy and Economic Development

Mourmouras, Alexandros; Rangazas, Peter - Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue … - 2008

This paper offers possible explanations for three generally observed facts about fiscal policy and development: (F1) The relative size of government increases as an economy develops, (F2) The rise in government and taxation are associated with rising or constant economic growth rates, and (F3)...

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Costly Buyer Search in Laboratory Markets with Seller Advertising

Cason, Timothy N.; Datta, Shakun - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2008

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Costly Buyer Search in Laboratory … Advertising * Timothy N. Cason Department of Economics Krannert School of Management Purdue University West Lafayette … feedback. The Purdue University Faculty Scholar program and the Purdue Research Foundation provided financial support. 1 …

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Strong Valid Inequalities for Orthogonal Disjunctions and Polynomial Covering Sets

Tawarmalani, Mohit; Richard, Jean-Philippe P.; Chung, … - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2008

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Strong Valid Inequalities for …. More precisely, the above technique relaxes the hypograph of ∗Krannert Working Paper 1Krannert School of Management, Purdue … University. Email: mtawarma@purdue.edu. Corresponding Author. 2Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of …

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Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2008

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Competition for FDI with Vintage …), Berlin, Germany. ‡ Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. 1 tially subject to the …

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The Alliance Formation Puzzle and Capacity Constraints

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2008

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana The Alliance Formation Puzzle and … University of Berlin, Germany. zKrannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. 1Other analyses …

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